Yeah I can get that way sometimes too. Like right now I’m standing at the dummy testing stuff and I’m having a really hard time getting around the creepers wandering around in my thunderbird build (doggies will be ok with storm’s companion). But how in the world do I give up One with Nature in a companion based build? And the Envenom passive. 30%(x) crit damage is a metric ton.
All of the lightning passives are lucky hit, which passive birds wont proc.
Overcharged aspect is also lucky hit and that would be ok if I needed to proc the debuff with stormstrike or windshear or even with the raven active, “Lucky Hit: Chance to Overload the target for 3 seconds” … but once the mobs are debuffed … “any direct damage you deal causes the target to pulse” … the companion passives don’t even set off the AoE pulse. Now with enough Luckyhit/CDR i can just drop a crap ton of raven actives all over the place (or on top of each other). I guess that wouldn’t feel to bad.
The Storm Key passive only applies to casted skills. But it does look like the Mighty Storm’s aspect guarantees crits with passive companion damage. So there’s a start I guess. And since it’s a stun build retribution will go a long way. But I still have to test if retribution applies to passive pet dmg.
Runeworker’s aspect would be usable. But that leads down a lightning bolt build and away from ravens.
Need to dig through runes to find another runeword to use. Don’t like spirit wolf since it’s cold dmg.
It just seems everything I try leads me back to proccing things WITH ravens instead of using ravens as a source of dmg.
Having said all of that … Prior to my testing session at the dummy, the Qax rune does make raven active hit like a semi-truck full of semi-trucks using the basic zoo setup. It’s one shotting elites (not the full duration, just the first tick), without retribution and not using a 2h, in penitent atm. And I solo’d maiden with it. I can charge it every other active or so. I’m still working on how to get it up more often.